Arts Local Model Teen 
Museum 2.0
JANUARY 24, 2011
This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience. We created a teen arts council, invested in staff, and invested in programming.
Museum 2.0
JULY 26, 2010
Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. Want some waffles with your art? Community science workshops.
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Museum 2.0
AUGUST 19, 2015
Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. Often, organizations adopt a service model that is strictly needs-based. While needs are important, this service model can be demeaning and disempowering. It's pretty simple.
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 18, 2008
On 8.16.08, the Museum of Art and History (Santa Cruz, CA) hosted FreelanceCamp, a free unconference that brought 150 designers and techies from the south bay area together to talk shop. The unconference got lots of locals "in the door" who otherwise hadn't considered the museum a useful or interesting place.
Museum 2.0
JANUARY 16, 2013
Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. The group was mostly young (teens to thirties) and nerd-diverse: a little bit punk, a little bit hacker, a little bit craft grrl. Participants who felt more confident modeled generous behavior and engaged others.
Museum 2.0
JULY 24, 2007
The New York Hall of Science’s Career Ladder successfully recruits and advances neighborhood teens as floor explainers, and their full-time staff includes many people who have come “up through the ranks.” The Brooklyn Museum of Art found that skateboarders were using their entrance plaza and invited them to continue.
Get Fully Funded
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
When you embrace this donor-based model of thinking about the needs and desires of your donors, fundraising gets easier. Maybe they love the food bank but don’t care about the arts. Early in my career, I worked at the local food bank. Partner with a local business. You never beg. It’s just how it is. Have the same values?
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